Evert van Roden

Altar of the collegiate church St. Johann in Osnabrück. After this work, van Roden was led under the emergency name Meister des Johannisaltar until 1987 .

Christ figure from the rood screen of the Marienfeld Monastery, today in the Franciscan Monastery of Wiedenbrück

Apostle Peter in the north aisle of the former Marienfeld Abbey Church

Crucifixion group in the choir of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Osnabrück

Evert van Roden was a sculptor of the late gothic from Munster .

Art history led him to the attribution of his works under the emergency name Meister des Johannisaltar . Reinhard Karrenbrock was the first to show in his dissertation in 1987 that the masters of the Johanniskirche in Osnabrück and Evert van Roden are identical. Evert van Roden worked in stone, but also in oak.

Life

Only a few life dates of Evert van Roden are attested, for the first time in a document from 1487 together with the Münster painter Johann von Soest . He was also known under the emergency name Meister von Liesborn , created the Brömsen altar in Lübeck's Jakobikirche and furnished it with his paintings. Evert van Roden was a contemporary of the sculptor Heinrich Brabender (* around 1475, † around 1537) in Münster , who was referred to by art history as the master of the entry of Christ into the first decade of the 20th century . Evert van Roden was probably older than Brabender, with whom he also worked. Heinrich Brabender's son Johann Brabender († 1561/1562), whose work is already influenced by the Renaissance , was probably trained in Evert van Roden's large workshop . This workshop is documented in Münster between 1485 and 1517.

Works

Evert van Roden's earliest work is in the Erphokapelle the Mauritz Church in Munster. It is the epitaph of the dean Johann Belholt († 1489). His main work has been preserved in Osnabrück , where, unlike in his home town of Münster, there was no destruction by the Anabaptist Empire . The Passion Altar (around 1512) with scenes of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, who gave van Roden his emergency name, is in the former collegiate church of St. Johann . The side wings, which were probably painted, were lost in the Thirty Years War . About eight years later the Great Crucifixion Group was created in the small neighboring church. The figures of the apostles from around 1525 have been preserved in the Osnabrück Cathedral of St. Peter , which are located on eight pillars of the central nave. The crucifixion group from the late period of his work also goes back to Evert van Roden , which was located in the immediately adjacent grammar school church until 1990 and was moved to the Herz-Jesu-Kirche on Herrenteichswall. A cast was attached to the grammar school church.

In North Rhine-Westphalia, the Calvary from 1490 from the Catholic parish church in Füchtorf comes from him . It was thought to be lost for more than a hundred years and was only passed down in one photo. It turned out that it was preserved and is in the possession of the diocese of Münster .

Another work by Evert van Roden is a Madonna in the Katharinenkirche of the Bentheim castle complex near Rheine . A stone Lamentation of Mary (around 1520) can be found in Steinfurt in the collegiate chapel, an extension of the parish church of St. Nicomedes. In the church of the former Cistercian monastery in Marienfeld , the furnishings of the rood screen , which was built around 1520/25, have been preserved in the original location . These include 12 apostles and the cross altar, one of the two side altars. The second side altar, dedicated to St. Anthony, is now in the LWL State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Münster.

The Philippus-Jakobus altarpiece from Paderborn Cathedral (around 1515) by Evert van Roden and Heinrich Brabender is part of the holdings of the LWL State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Münster, as well as fragments of the Calvary from Münster Cathedral. Calvaries from his workshop, which were created around 1500, are also located in Langenberg near Wiedenbrück , Warburg and Horstmar , and from the period between 1520 and 1525 in the provost church in Werl .

In Bremen's St. Petri Cathedral there is the organ player with the reliefs of St. Willehad , the city's first bishop, and Charlemagne .

The crucifixion altar of the Brömsenkapelle in the Jakobikirche has been preserved in Lübeck . Evert van Roden created it between 1488 and 1500. His stone sculpture is “undoubtedly the most subtle stone sculpture of the late Gothic (...) [whose] exquisite delicacy and elegance (...) [may] have prompted the Lübeck mayor to undertake this commission to award Bernt Notke to Westphalia despite the competition ”.

Evert van Roden's work also became a model for contemporary artists. The cross altar in the St. Walburga Church in Meschede is a replica of the crucifixion retable that was made around 1525 in Evert van Roden's workshop for the former Marienfeld monastery church. The three-winged neo-Gothic relief altar made of sandstone was created around 1911 by the sculptor Anton Mormann from Wiedenbrück.

Awards

A street in Marienfeld is named after van Roden, as van Roden was the master of the rood screen in the monastery church there.

literature

• Reinhard Karrenbrock: Evert van Roden - The master of the high altar of the Osnabrück Johanniskirche. A contribution to sculpture of the late Gothic in: Osnabrücker Geschichtsquellen und Forschungen, Volume 31, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-87898-332-8 .
• Reinhard Karrenbrock: Influences and interactions - the Westphalian stone sculpture in the period between 1470 and 1560 and the Brabender in: Hermann Arnhold (Hrsg.): The Brabender - sculpture at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-402-03509-X , pp. 89-95.

Web links

Commons : Evert van Roden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Evert van Roden in the catalog of the German National Library
• Johannis altar in Osnabrück

Individual evidence

1. ↑ St. Johannes in Osnabrück ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ The Crucifixion Group In: New Cathedral Community St. Petrus (Ed.): 100 Years of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Church of Osnabrück . Special edition of part of a commemorative publication on the history of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche on the occasion of the 97th German Catholic Convention May 2008. Osnabrück 2008, p. 22.
3. ↑ Calvaries (PDF file, 46 pages; 2.3 MB)
4. ↑ Named after the mayor of Lübeck Heinrich Brömse .
5. ↑ Such a newer conception in art history. This altar was previously assigned to Heinrich Brabender.
6. ↑ Walter Paatz : Münster, Bremen and Lübeck In: Festschrift Martin Wackernagel , Cologne 1958, pp. 75–61.